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If MS keeps giving away its software for free, how is it going to make money? Hopefully it won't ad advertising. Is it because a lot of people become comfortab

If MS keeps giving away its software for free, how is it going to make money? Hopefully it won't ad advertising. Is it because a lot of people become comfortable with the tools and companies upgrade to the paid version for a few extra features?

badthingfactory 12y ago
Microsoft is currently doing everything they can to get developers to deploy software to Azure.
Guvante 12y ago
You cannot use Community to make enterprise software. Enterprise software described the entirety of the people willing to drop $2,000+ a year to use Visual Studio. This won't impact their primary market, especially when you consider that MSDN subscriptions are often considered the primary benefit of using Visual Studio.
- tzs 12y ago
  > You cannot use Community to make enterprise software. Not quite. You cannot use Community IN an enterprise other than for contributing to open source, academic research, or classroom learning. There's no restriction on using it to MAKE enterprise software.
  - Guvante 12y ago
    But being in an enterprise is what I was talking about. And hard as I tried I couldn't find the details as to what that means without downloading the new version.
    - dasiek 12y ago
      http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13350 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1335... page 10 but I'm not sure if it's only about organizations up to 5 but it's fine if you are Individual?? : "Example 2: A Fortune 500 firm has outsourced the development of its store-locator mobile application to a small agency. The application is not an open source project. The agency has 5 employees working on the project and would like to use Visual Studio Community 2013. Since the agency is a contractor developing this application for the Fortune 500 firm, and since the application is not an open source project, the agency cannot use Visual Studio Community 2013 for developing and testing the application. "
unsignedint 12y ago
Maybe bait and switch? I don't know if Microsoft is among ones practice this approach, but they can potentially discontinue and force users to move on to paid version, once they gain enough user hooked to it. Though, it seems like Microsoft has been consistent with their Express SKUs for years, maybe this is purely theoretical. (One instance I can think of is TechNet -- but this one, they discontinued it without alternative path, so I guess it's a little different...)

badthingfactory 12y ago

Microsoft is currently doing everything they can to get developers to deploy software to Azure.

Guvante 12y ago

You cannot use Community to make enterprise software. Enterprise software described the entirety of the people willing to drop $2,000+ a year to use Visual Studio. This won't impact their primary market, especially when you consider that MSDN subscriptions are often considered the primary benefit of using Visual Studio.

tzs 12y ago
> You cannot use Community to make enterprise software. Not quite. You cannot use Community IN an enterprise other than for contributing to open source, academic research, or classroom learning. There's no restriction on using it to MAKE enterprise software.
- Guvante 12y ago
  But being in an enterprise is what I was talking about. And hard as I tried I couldn't find the details as to what that means without downloading the new version.
  - dasiek 12y ago
    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13350 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1335... page 10 but I'm not sure if it's only about organizations up to 5 but it's fine if you are Individual?? : "Example 2: A Fortune 500 firm has outsourced the development of its store-locator mobile application to a small agency. The application is not an open source project. The agency has 5 employees working on the project and would like to use Visual Studio Community 2013. Since the agency is a contractor developing this application for the Fortune 500 firm, and since the application is not an open source project, the agency cannot use Visual Studio Community 2013 for developing and testing the application. "

unsignedint 12y ago

Maybe bait and switch? I don't know if Microsoft is among ones practice this approach, but they can potentially discontinue and force users to move on to paid version, once they gain enough user hooked to it. Though, it seems like Microsoft has been consistent with their Express SKUs for years, maybe this is purely theoretical. (One instance I can think of is TechNet -- but this one, they discontinued it without alternative path, so I guess it's a little different...)